Confederate General
He was confederate.
Union
Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Union Armies by President Lincoln. He turned it down because he felt he was a Virginian first and could not fight against is State.
· Alexander Stephens (Vice President of the Confederate States of America) · Braxton Bragg (Confederate General) · Cadwallader Washburn (Union General) · Davis, Jefferson (Confederate President) · Edward M. Stanton (Union Secretary of War) · Forest, General Nathan Bedford (Confederate General) · General George McClellan (Union General) · Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's Vice President during the war) · Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" (Confederate General) · Kane, Thomas (Union General) · Lee, Robert E. (Confederate General) · Mallory, Stephen R. (Confederate Secretary of the Navy) · Philip Kearny (Union General) · Quantrill, Confederate Captain William · Richard Taylor (Confederate General) · Stuart, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" (Confederate General) · Taliaferro, William B. (Confederate General) · Ulysses S. Grant (Union General) · Van Cleve, Horatio (Union General) · Wadsworth, James S. (Union General) · Zook, Samuel (Union General)
ANSWER No, he was an Union General.
He's a Confederate general.
Union
Union fought Confederate at Manassas (Bull Run) - both times.
union
General Robert E. Lee. He was asked by President Abraham Lincoln if he would command the Union forces but he declined, with much difficulty, saying that he could not fight against his state, Virgina. While Robert E. Lee was still a colonel in the US Army, it's clear he was offered a commanding position in the Union army, however, the actual US general making this offer was probably Winfield Scott. Nevertheless, President Lincoln would have approved of this. Also, Lee's position in the Confederate army at first was a minor commission. Later he would advance and become the leading, most highly regarded Confederate general.
He was a union general and later became the 18th president